An Alabama chiropractor accused of trying to kill his spouse by lacing her drugs with lead is insisting that he was additionally a sufferer of being poisoned.
Brian Mann, 36, is dealing with tried homicide costs after authorities say he used lead from a building mission to lace his spouse’s drugs, in accordance with court docket paperwork obtained by the Hartselle Enquirer.
Mann allegedly started giving his spouse Hannah Pettey, 25, drugs in the summertime of 2021 below the guise of strengthening her immune system because the couple was going by a contentious divorce, in accordance with her lawyer.
Pettey was reportedly hospitalized for 2 months in what authorities believed was a plot by Mann to “deliberately trigger her to unwittingly ingest particles of lead.”
Nonetheless, Mann’s attorneys insist their consumer was additionally subjected to steer poisoning throughout the couple’s residence.
Authorities had been reportedly despatched to research potential sources of lead all through the home, with Mann initially cooperating with investigators by handing over drugs and nutritional vitamins Pettey was taking on the time of her hospitalization.
After conducting two separate searches, officers reportedly didn’t discover proof of a supply of lead, with Mann telling police he was “nonetheless attempting” to discover a place for the couple’s kids to be examined.
Shortly earlier than Mann’s arrest, a nurse at Decatur Common Hospital reportedly referred to as the police after Mann instructed her “he did an X-ray on himself and noticed a substance in his intestine, which he believed to be lead,” in accordance with an affidavit obtained by the Hartselle Enquirer.
When the nurse reportedly instructed him one other X-ray was wanted to find out the severity of the ingestion, Mann “grew to become visibly nervous, and she or he thought he might go away.”
Following the second scan, the nurse practitioner instructed police that she did discover a “substance in [Mann’s] colon,” however it “didn’t seem to have been there for very lengthy.”
The affidavit, signed by Hartselle Police Capt. Alan McDearmond, reveals authorities subpoenaed Mann’s medical information and “believes the medical information point out [he] deliberately ingested lead to offer the impression he was additionally being poisoned.”
Shortly after Mann’s go to to the hospital, a tipster referred to as native authorities to tell them he had been concerned in a building mission putting in lead within the partitions of an X-ray room at Mann’s chiropractor workplace.
The caller reportedly revealed he had left the additional lead with Mann.
Mann was subsequently arrested in September 2022.
Mann’s protection workforce has appeared to dam proof from being introduced in court docket, reportedly claiming the gathering was carried out so in an improper method, with the “process to extract the alleged lead from [Mann’s wife’s] urine was carried out within the again car parking zone of the Hartselle Police Division utilizing a five-gallon bucket and a strainer,” in accordance with the Hartselle Enquirer.
Each the prosecuting lawyer and Mann’s protection workforce didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for remark.
Mann was launched on $500,000 bond and faces trial after pleading not responsible to tried homicide.
